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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of look does Charles think Lucas has in his eyes?
(a) Sinful and cold
(b) Tired and experienced
(c) Wise and humorous
(d) Intolerable and inflexible

2. Where does Charles eat his breakfast?
(a) In the garden
(b) In the kitchen
(c) In the lounge
(d) In the dining room

3. What make of gun does Lucas own?
(a) A Heckler and Koch
(b) A Remington
(c) A Colt .41
(d) Adams

4. What does Charles leave in the water?
(a) His wallet
(b) His pants
(c) His rifle
(d) His socks

5. What do the black prisoners normally do?
(a) Stand at the window and call out
(b) Spit at passers by
(c) Sing the blues
(d) Hit the bars with their metal plates

6. What does Charles notice about the roads?
(a) They have been resurfaced
(b) They are empty of black people
(c) There is a long trail trail of blood
(d) They are hilly

7. What does Charles do when they hear the mule?
(a) Shoots at the mule blindly
(b) Greets the mule and its rider cordially
(c) Asks who it is
(d) Drives off the road

8. Where does Uncle Gavin tell Lucas he shot the man?
(a) Between the eyes
(b) In the kidney
(c) In the groin
(d) In the back

9. What does Charles do during breakfast?
(a) Prays
(b) Vomits
(c) Cries
(d) Falls asleep

10. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?
(a) The district attourney
(b) The president
(c) The senator
(d) The local judge

11. Why is the sheriff reluctant to do anything?
(a) He does not want to anger the Goweries'
(b) They do not know who the person on the mule was
(c) It is a waste of public resources
(d) No one cares what happens to Lucas

12. How are they going to transport the body back to the truck?
(a) Drag it along with rope
(b) They don't need the body only the bullet
(c) They will carry it
(d) Using Charles' horse

13. What is the name of Lucas's wife?
(a) Jane
(b) Molly
(c) Baby Suggs
(d) Andrea

14. What does the rider have on the horse with him?
(a) They could not see
(b) A dead animal
(c) A rifle
(d) A dead man

15. Why do they find the grave so quickly?
(a) It is biggest in the graveyard
(b) It is full of fresh flowers
(c) It is the only one with a headstone
(d) It was the first one dug that winter

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the character know the grave has been disturbed?

2. Where does Aleck Sander eat his breakfast?

3. How much money does Charles try to give Lucas?

4. Why does the sheriff think the towns people will not lynch during the day?

5. How would Charles leave town?

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